Graham Benton on RowingChat

10/19/18 • 56 min

Full podcast details Timestamps to the show 01:00 Introduction and background in rowing 03:00 Fastest erg time 5:42.5 nearly beating Matthew Pinsent 04:00 Getting recruited to Tideway Scullers under Bill Barry as a coach 10:00 World Class Start talent ID programme under Peter Shakespeare 15:00 Henley final losing by 3 feet. Graham has been in 3 HRR finals losing by a total of 10 feet. 18:00 I love rowing and winning. When you're good at something it's hard to walk away. A poison chalice. 19:00 Eddie Fletcher is my indoor rowing scientist coach. He makes me confident in what I do. It's about layering speed on speed. Giving me the proof points that I can do it. 21:00 Training as an older athlete - less is more. In a race, the cox can talk over the demons in your head. 28:00 I'm working on now is using the rate more. My big scores were high 20s / low 30s. Now for 10k I work on 34-36 stroke rate. 31:00 The display I choose is the average meters to first / second place in a race [C2 race format]. I row a flat race profile, as simple as possible 34:00 My sprint technique on the C2 39:00 You may be surprised but I stop during a lot of training sessions, never in a race. I try to assess the value of what I've done. 44:00 Rowing with Bradley Wiggins 50:00 How to improve your erg score.

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Ryan Demaine Headington School: RowingChat

Ryan Demaine, Head coach of Headington School is my guest. 01:00 Introduction and background in rowing 02:00 The state of school rowing in the UK. 04:00 The structure of our school rowing programme by age - 140+ girls in the club 08:00 Number of sessions per week for different age groups. 13:00 No injuries in the group by starting slowly with weight lifting. The speed of the bar is important. 14:00 Prioritise participation over performance Many schools don’t create an athlete-oriented environment. 21:00 The athlete scholar - coined by Christine Wilson. You must be on top of your work or rowing suffers. 24:00 Drop off between school and university 27:00 Physiology Testing - Charlie Simpson uses 5 or 6 ergs lasting 10 minutes with 10 minutes rest between. 30 minutes is when the aerobic zone is for blood lactate and watts is the training band. 31:00 Take watts from the gym into the boat - rate of perceived exertion on 1-10 scale plus Heart Rate plus lactate or watts. 35:00 My coaching philosophy of how to move a boat. Relaxation, Rhythm, Efficiency 42:00 Quad - confidence on how the boat feels 48:00 Match racing skills. I care about the performance more than the boat speed. 50:00 We should move the school exams to December and finish the rowing year in October. Read the full blog post https://www.rowperfect.co.uk/ryan-demaine-headington-school-on-rowingchat/

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